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Story notes a course submitted from Ball State University’s Architecture program. The fourth-year studio stipulates that designs be zero net energy and incorporate socially resilient housing; works produced can then be built the following semester.

Story notes that the Mounds Lake reservoir proposal has come under fire in a new set of critiques released in recent days by Ball State University experts in urban planning, biology, anthropology, archeology, geology and economics.Note: Inside Indiana Business posted a similar story.

February 28, 2015

Indianapolis Business Journal: An agenda for evolving great Indy neighborhoods

The story notes that the project, a collaboration between Ball State and Muncie’s nonprofit Martin Luther King Dream Team, began when Muncie’s transit system donated a retired city bus for the Dream Team to use for educational outreach in 2005. Note: Associated Press distributed this story nationally to various media outlets, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Times and Elkhart Truth.

Story notes that what was once the stuff of science fiction is now an educational tool students in Ball State University’s architecture, planning and landscape architecture programs are incorporating into daily life.

Carol Street, Archivist for Architectural Records at the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, is one of these individuals who has seen a tremendous benefit in learning and interest in learning, through the use of 3D printing technology.

October 13, 2014

3D Print: 3D printed species encourage students to evolve form in design of dwelling

Feature on offbeat and interesting classes offered at universities in Indiana leads off with a long segment about Ball State architecture professor Harry Eggink's class on designing with pieces of retired airplanes.

Ball State University architecture students are dreaming up second lives to recycle old airplanes. What if, they asked themselves, instead of sending retired aircrafts to graveyards to rust, they could use them to build bus stops and apartmentcomplexes and emergency relief huts?

Carol Street, an archivist at Ball State University's College of Architecture, explained, "Edward Pierre was no mere architect." Street, who oversees the drawings and documents archive, describes Pierre as one of the state's greatest designers and urban planners. She calls the Pierre Wright collection, (architect George Wright was Pierre's long-time business partner) one of her best in the collection. "They built so much of the city's important architecture when Indianapolis was really coming into its own, with building stock and businesses."

Our lives can be viewed as a sequence of encounters, some of them remarkable and memorable. When we look back on those encounters, we find they are frequently associated with places that created, supported or enhanced the significance of those experiences.